The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.